Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
8 funders with a record of paying for “portraiture”
Where the money went
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8 funders, 8 recipients, grants matching “portraiture” only. Ribbon width is proportional to the total given; each funder has its own colour. Hover a name to isolate its flows, click a funder to open it. Drag to move around; zoom with the buttons, a double-click, or the wheel after clicking the map.
Largest: $175,000 to RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — for black portraiture[s]: play and performance, the seventh annual black portraiture[s] conference
Largest: $13,310 to HIDDEN VOICES — a collaborative, community-based project using ethnography, story-sharing, portraiture, and community conversation circles, r to the power of 3 explores rural reentry through the l…
Largest: $12,000 to COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS — community access to the arts (cata) invites berkshire life charitable foundation to underwrite 100 cata visual arts workshops between september 2022 and may 2023 through a grant of…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →
